WI/PC: Paul Revere dies in 1773?

This is just a random thought I’ve had lately: for whatever reason, Paul Revere dies during the Boston Tea Party in a freak accident (maybe he slips and falls into the harbor and then a crate of tea hits him on the head and he drowns or something). obviously, this means he doesn’t participate in the Midnight Ride or any other event of the American Revolution and, in all likelihood, is an obscure figure that hardly anyone knows about (I’d think Longfellow would still write the poem, but it’d be slightly different). Any ideas on how an earlier death for Revere could affect the American Revolution, if at all, and who would take his place in the Midnight Ride? The only idea I have so far is that, as a butterfly effect of his death, Samuel Prescott is at least slightly more important and doesn’t apparently die in 1777 (the records are spotty on what actually happened to him IOTL)
 
I pondered this question while I was in Prescott, Massachusetts walking along the shoreline of Dawes Beach.

"Listen my children and you shall hear of the Midnight Ride of Prescott and Dawes, brave souls who rallied the Patriot cause."

Local legend/myth/gossip would have it that Dawes as well as a Patriot was also the Town drunk and the reason Dr. Prescott was out on horseback that late at night when the riders encountered him was he had just left a tryst with a married woman. There are reasons the good doctor knew the backroads so well at night.
 
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